"Append in Parole" should be added as a desktop action to parole.desktop, since this is what people expect to be able to do from the file manager. So said Benedikt Meurer at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376 Actions=Append; [Desktop Action Append] Exec=parole -a %F Name=Append in Parole Icon=add
Thunar doesn't seem to support this anymore. The appropriate method would be to add a custom action (Edit > Configure custom actions), this way you can very easily set up the enqueue-action for Parole on your system.
I noticed it since updating to Thunar 1.4.0. It was reported to me that Desktop Actions are still exist in Thunar 1.6.1. Desktop Actions can be useful for various of things. See attached .desktop files of Linguist and Poedit. Why Desktop Actions were removed?
Created attachment 4837 Linguist
Created attachment 4838 Poedit
I'm going to mark this as "Won't Fix". Thunar no longer supports .desktop-file actions, but has a simple mechanism for adding such actions with Custom Actions, as Simon had previously pointed out. Additionally, desktop actions are increasingly being used for quick lists, such as in Unity and Plank (Docky 3.0). Distributors are able to define default custom actions (Such as Xubuntu does with Catfish), so this really is the preferred method. The only other alternative is to create a plugin similar to the thunar-archive-plugin: http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/thunar-archive-plugin/ but that seems like overkill.
(In reply to Sean Davis from comment #5) > I'm going to mark this as "Won't Fix". > > Thunar no longer supports .desktop-file actions, but has a simple mechanism > for adding such actions with Custom Actions, as Simon had previously pointed > out. > If desktop action is still in current standards why has it been removed from Thunar? http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#extending Are there plans to migrate/support "Service" type of KDE? http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#kde-items kde3-konqueror /opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/ kde4-dolphin /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ Thunar /usr/share/Thunar/ServiceMenus/ Thunar ~/.local/share/Thunar/ServiceMenus/ I think using .desktop files, which are used for panel plugins (Type=X-XFCE-PanelPlugin) and are even used for exo helpers (Type=X-XFCE-Helper), is the most comfortable method. If one does not want a certain desktop action then s/he should un-tick it from Custom Actions dialog.